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Monthly Archives: November 2022
A mash-up of holiday classics (with ghosts) at Fort Edmonton: It’s A Wonderful Christmas Carol
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m not the man I was….” No kidding. The flinty Mr. Scrooge gives off new sparks in the panto-radio play mash-up that opens at the Capitol Theatre in Fort Edmonton Park Thursday, as part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Edmonton Christmas Market, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Kids in the Hall
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A new Scrooge for the Citadel’s Christmas Carol: John Ullyatt dons the pinstripes
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a theatre town where a lavish Citadel production of A Christmas Carol isn’t just another entertainment choice but a bona fide civic tradition, “Bah, Humbug!” is by now the “to be or not to be” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight, A Christmas Carol, Citadel Theatre, David van Belle, Edmonton theatre
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The Innocence of Trees, a strange and wonderful fantasia on making art, opens the new Theatre Network season. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Theatre Network mainstage is overhung with canvases, dropped at every angle, catching the light in different ways. The back wall, the horizon of the theatre, is a single canvas, and a vertical black line moves … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Agnes Martin, Edmonton theatre, Theatre Network Roxy Theatre
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We’ve lost a giant: Thomas Peacocke, the small-town kid who changed Canadian theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A giant is gone. With the passing of Thomas Peacocke last week at 89, we’ve lost at one go an actor/director/teacher/mentor/administrator/advocate who has played a leading, vivid role in building and shaping theatre here in this … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Genie Awards, National Theatre School, Studio Theatre, Thomas Peacocke, Torches Theatre, U of A drama department
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The fascinating journey of painter Agnes Martin: The Innocence of Trees premieres at Theatre Network’s new Roxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I would like my pictures to represent beauty, innocence, and happiness…. I would like them all to represent that. Exaltation.” — Agnes Martin Theatre Network formally launches the beautiful new Roxy on 124th Street, and their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Agnes Martin, Edmonton theatre, Eugene Stickland, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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From a big bad dangerous world, to us: Evandalism, a surprising original at Fringe Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It wasn’t a promising start to a life: “a little Mexican Indian whose mom and dad didn’t want him.” The guy who stands before us, tattooed and smiling in front of a big magic board, is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Bear Grease, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre
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A comedy thriller inside a comedy thriller: Deathtrap at Teatro Live! A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a play that judges success when the audience gasps together, then laughs at its own collective surprise, it’s the one that opens the season at Teatro Live! (the newly renamed Teatro La … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, comedy thrillers, Deathtrap, Edmonton theatre, Ira Levin, Teatro Live! Varscona Theatre
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A life transformed by hip-hop: Evandalism opens the Fringe Theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Henry Andrade (aka MC RedCloud) has a story. It’s personal, it’s dramatic, it’s hopeful, it crucially involves hip-hop. And, starting Friday on the Westbury stage, he’s sharing it from the stage in a one-man storytelling performance/show … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre
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Two sparring playwrights in a vintage thriller: Deathtrap opens the Teatro Live! season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The twisty comedy thriller that opens the Teatro season on the Varscona stage Friday is a classic, Ira Levin’s vintage 1978 Broadway hit Deathtrap. But the production that launches the Teatro La Quindicina of old into … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, comedy thrillers, Deathtrap, Edmonton theatre, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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